Dispensing cabinet



Patented July 3, 1928.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

WILLIAM FAIRCHILD, or ALBANY, New YORK, VASSIGNOR TO A BA NYrEnmRA-rnn wnnrrme rAPEa COMPANY, or ALBANY, NEW YORK, A coRronA'r-Ion OF NEW YORK.

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Application filed January. 19, 1927. Serial No. 162,027.

The object of my invention has been to provide a cabinet for dispensing or delivera withdrawal, and to such ends my invention consists in the dispensing cabinet hereinafter specified.

While I shall illustrate my invention by the best embodiment thereof which is known to me, my invention is capable of embodiment in many different forms, and it is not to be confined to the particular form chosen for illustration.

In the accompanying drawings:

Figure 1 is a vertical sectional view of a cabinet containing a paper package, and so constructed as to permit access to the lowermost unit of the package while preventing access to the rest of the package;

Fig. 2 is a perspective view of one of the units forming a paper package which is suitable foruse in the said cabinet; and

Fig. 3 is a perspective view of two of said units assembled into a package.

The package used for illustration is composed of units which, as shown in Fig. 2, consists of two leaves 1 and 2 which are united by a doubled edge 3, the said leaves being respectively connected with leaves 1 and 5 by folds 6 and 7, the leaf 5 being connected with a free leaf 8 by a. fold 9, and. the leaf 4: being connected with a free lea-f 10 by a. fold 11.

The units are assembled into a package by placing the doubled edge 3 of one unit be tween the free leaves 8 and 10 of the next lower unit. Thus it will be seen that the free leaves of each unit embrace or clasp between them thedoubled edge of the next unit above, with its leaves 1 and 2.

The cabinet illustrated in the drawings comprises a front 12 and a back 13, one of which may be hinged to permit the package of interfolded units to be laced in the cabinet. The cabinet has a ttom, consisting of sections 14 and 15, the section 14 being preferably at a higher level than the section 15. The section 14 has :1 preferably rounded edge 16, and an apron 17, which extends to, or is connected with, a mouth section'18 having a lip or shoulder 19. The bottom section 15 also has an apron 20 depending therefrom, which is referably bent up to form a shoulder 21. here is also a lip or shoulder 22 opposite the lip or shoulder 19, the two lips or shoulders being separated to form a mouth, or opening, through which the. doubled edge3 of the lowermost unit of the paper package may project in position for the user toltake hold of; The package and cabinet are so constructed that the withdrawal of one unit from the mouth of the cabinet willalways bring anew :unit into position, where it can be taken hold of by the user.

As, in the described package, the doubled edge 3 of each unit is laced in between the free leaves 8 and 10 o the next unit below, the said doubled edge is, so to speak, grasped on each side by the free leaves of thenext unit below in much the same way as the doubled edge of the lowermost unit is grasped between the thumb and forefinger of the user.

It will be observed that the engaged portions of the lowermost unit and the next one above it follow asinuous path between the shoulder 15 at the front edge of the bottom section 15 and the shoulders 16, 21, 19 and 22, and thus the free leaves of the lowermost section are, at several points, pressed against the doubled portion of the next section above, so that the grip of the leaves on the said section is firm and sure.

The result is that the said receptacle causes each unit. as it is withdrawn, to draw down the doubled edge of the succeeding unit with certainty. While this result is thus accomplished, the paper units are nowhere in their path drawn between pieces of metal that are close together, the paper being quite free on its side opposite to each shoulder. Thus, while my said cabinet causes each unit to firmly grasp the next succeeding one, the lowermost unit can be withdrawn from the cabinet with comparatively little effort.

I claim:

1. A dispensing cabinet for pa er packages, said packages being compose of separate units, said cabinet having a support for such package, and, an elongated opening therein of considerable width relative to the thickness of the paper, and a sinuous passage leading therefrom so shaped as to force the paper into a reverse bend during its course therethrough.

2. -A dispensing cabinet for paper packages, said packages being composed of separate units, said cabinet having a support for the package, said support having an opening therein, and guides below said opening and acting to bend the unit being withdrawn in reverse directions.

- 3. A dispensing cabinet 'for paper packages, said packages being composed of separate units, said cabinet having a support for the package, and a plurality of shoulders below said opening and acting to bend in opposite directions the unit which is being withdrawn.

4. A dispensing cabinet "for packages said packages being of paper, composed of separate units, comprising a support for the package, and more than three shoulders which are below said opening and acting to bend in opposite directions the unit being withdrawn.

5. A dispensing cabinet for paper packages, said packages being composed of separate units, comprising a, support for the package, consisting of sections separated to form an openin for the unit being withdrawn, a shoul er below said opening so positioned as to tend to bend said unit against one side of said passage, and another shoulder below said last mentioned shoulder tending to bend said unit against said last mentioned shoulder.

6. A dispensin cabinet for paper packages, composed 0 separate units, comprising a support for the package, consisting of sections separated to form an opening for the unit being withdrawn, a shoulder below said opening so positioned as tov tend to bend said unit against one side of said passage, another shoulder below said last mentioned shoulder tending to bend said unit against said last mentioned shoulder, and still another shoulder below said second mentioned shoulder and adapted to bend said unit thereagainst. v r

In testimony that I claim the foregoing, I have hereunto set my hand this 15th day of January, 1927.

WILLIAM FAIRCHILD. 

